FTS Researchers Participate in International Conference
On February 20–21, 2025, six researchers from the Faculty of Translation Studies at Ventspils University of Applied Sciences participated in the international scientific conference From the First Book to Digital Texts: The Development of Language in 500 Years, organized in Riga by the Institute of the Latvian Language and Faculty of Humanities of the University of Latvia. Over two intensive and content-rich days, the conference addressed a wide range of topics related to both the history of the Latvian language and current linguistic research.
Associate Professor Silga Sviķe, in collaboration with Dr. Arturs Stalažs (University of Latvia) and Lecturer Karina Šķirmante (Ventspils University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Information Technologies), presented a paper entitled ‘Biolexipedia’: Smart complex of information systems of specialized biology lexis for the research and preservation of linguistic diversity.
Dr. philol. Rafael Martin Calvo gave a presentation titled An Analysis of the Terms Oriģinālforma and Oriģinālvaloda in Cabinet Regulation No. 114.
Dr. philol. Egita Proveja examined Latvian cookbooks through different historical periods in her paper.
Associate Professor Jānis Veckrācis presented his research. The research examines how legal language — specifically, specialized legal vocabulary — was used in Latvian translations of laws that applied to peasants in Vidzeme (a region in Latvia) between 1850 and 1899.
In connection with her ongoing doctoral research, Aiga Veckalne’s presentation explores the role of plain (easy-to-understand) language in the modern digital era, especially as a strategy to support the long-term vitality and accessibility of the Latvian language.
Aiga Bādere, whose doctoral dissertation is nearing completion, explored the linguistic characteristics of texts produced by machine translation systems and the language resulting from human post-editing of those texts.
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